A Luftwaffe Black Leather Belt GTRexclude War Merit Cross 1st Class

War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords

Hughes was awarded the Order of the British Empire

issued at Zbiroh

words of encouragement

compensating for his lack of education and was "very good in the field" and "he is eager to work and is never heard to complain

A Luftwaffe Black Leather Belt GTRexclude War Merit Cross 1st ClassBelt is fabricated from a very thick leather with a smooth finished black upper, raw underside, a tab stitched in place on the underside with a smooth finished brown upper on the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, stamped in black ink "L. W." inside a rectangular box and emboss stamped "95" on the underside at the right end, magnetic metal receiving clip on the left end, the belt measuring 44 mm x 1,090 mm.